Read article 'Metallic water becomes even more accessible'
Water is well known for its astonishing range of unusual properties, and now Thomas Mattsson and Michael Desjarlais of Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico have suggested yet another one.
Read article 'Supernova follows X-ray flash'
Astronomers have reached another milestone in the understanding of gamma-ray bursts by observing a supernova at the location of an X-ray flash that was detected by NASA’s Swift spacecraft. The s...
Read article 'ATLAS superconducting solenoid succeeds in full commissioning'
The ATLAS Collaboration passed a major milestone during the evening of 1 August.
Read article 'D0 finds evidence for WZ pair production'
The D0 Collaboration at Fermilab has announced the first measurement of the cross-section for WZ pair production in proton–antiproton collisions.
Read article 'LHC dipole installation gets to half-way mark'
The installation of the 616th dipole for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on 12 July marked the half-way point for the machine's 1232 dipole magnets.
Read article 'CMS gets ready for its descent underground'
July saw some major manoeuvres for the CMS detector, as the collaboration prepares to lower it into its final position on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.
Read article 'PAMELA looks for dark matter and antimatter'
PAMELA will stay in space for at least three years, on a 70° elliptic orbit at an altitude of 300–600 km.
Read article 'Japanese source starts lasing at 49 nm wavelength in VUV'
On 20 June, the SPring-8 Compact SASE Source (SCSS) prototype accelerator generated its first pulses at a wavelength of 49 nm in the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) region.
Read article 'Trap gives precise new value for fine structure constant'
A team at Harvard University has made a new precise measurement of the electron magnetic moment, which in turns allows the fine structure constant to be determined with an uncertainty 10 times smaller...
Read article 'Satellite gives a new view of pulsars'
Observations of old pulsars by the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton satellite fail to detect the 1 million-degree hot spots seen around the pole of younger pulsars. The absence of polar X...
